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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
It's a lot easier to call someone dominant after the fact. Regardless, YOU said the track was killing speed. I agree that a wide closing move was the best move on the track, but offered up an example of a race that didn't kill speed.
If you were Coa, considering you broke from the rail, with the short run into the turn, with a horse with tactical speed, what would you have done?
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all the jockey tactics I happen to know are the armchair variety. If he could have let the fools on the pace go, and got the horse to settle back 3- 5 off the pace along the rail...
even if it left him with some work to have to fight his way back outside, I think it would have been optimal. Can't say whether that scenario would even have been possible
I don't know if it was coa's fault or the horse or just bad racing circumstance but the one thing i have an opinion on was that holding back and making one run was the best way to race that day.
11-06-2008, 08:59 PM
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